Officially, the SAA transaction to establish the first post-apartheid Black-Owned aviation company with the most global, lucrative, and Mandela goodwill dividend landing rights and routes is off the table. The opportunity to demonstrate the liberation promise of black ownership of the commanding heights of the South African economy as private [...]

South Africa is entering the intensive phases of its election season. The ultimate prize of politics, government, is at stake. The outcomes of elections have constantly reconfigured social and political networks. Depending on the reach, strength, and resilience of the ruling class or establishment, the matrices of power in a [...]

Published in the Sunday Times on 17 March 2024 In the middle of an impressive record of decisiveness in implementing what the governing ANC called renewal through weeding out characters responsible for putting its integrity and standing into disrepute, two personalities of the ANC emerge. The pursuit of integrity as [...]

This article was published on Business Day, 07 March 2024. It was headlined ‘Those in power continually redefine the barriers to entry’ Rodger Jardine’s Change Starts Now (CSN) decision to withdraw from the race echoes more of what will come. South Africa’s political order has settled on being driven by [...]